COLOSSAL BUILDING.
«. AMERICAN PROJECT. BY CABLE—PBJJSo ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received Dec. 17, 10.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dee. 16. A message from Chicago states that a World’s Temple to Agriculture, is to be the largest building in the world and includes a radio broadcasting tower rivalling the Eiffel Tower. The convention hall will have 20,000 seats. There will be a commercial hotel and 3500 rooms. The whole is to cost thirty million dollars, and lias been planned by a mid-western group. It is to be known as the American Agricultural Society Building, and will be the centre of United States farm activities. The finance of the project is said to be assured. The building would front Michigan Boulevard, at the junction of the Chicago river, with passenger and freight docks and warehouse facilities and a suburban train station. Plans* fsr the complete structure are due bv May, 1927. J
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 December 1924, Page 5
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